normally, i would not even deign to venture into such a base and disgusting realm as politics.

but we will soon have a president who is a moron with a right-wing (i.e. inexcusably first-order "thinking") agenda who was not even elected, but appointed by a politically aligned supreme court decision -- i can't just stay silent on this one.

so what does dubya mean when he says he wants a "healing tone" and "unity" for the united states?

it means he wants you to turn your head while he runs roughshod over the first amendment. please don't pay attention as he limits free speech and makes christianity the national religion.

it means you're supposed to put blinders on as he compassionately erodes the justice system with calls for stiffer punishments on alleged criminals who receive weaker and weaker representation from state appointed attorneys. incarcerate the poor!

please, take no heed as someone who has never seen anything but privilege gets really cozy with corporations, thus further concentrating their ability to screw over their workers and the american consumer.

oh, and don't say anything when someone with a history of drug and alcohol abuse compassionately wastes your tax dollars and increases the prison population by escalating the war on drugs.

and speaking of being buddy-buddy with corporations, please also ignore the quality of your air and water as mr. failed oilman lets whoever they please pollute, stripmine, and rape the planet as long as its good for business.

while on the subject of rape, if you're against abortion, cut off your dick. if you don't have a dick, then just don't have an abortion. don't tell anyone else how to use their body. and especially don't try to enforce laws on it, mr. i've-never-had-to-live-as-low-as-the-middle-class.

please also ignore that someone who admits to not reading is going to try to reform education, also by appealing to the upper classes. taking johnny and your money out of public schools only serves to increase the percentage of uneducated people in this already woefully undereducated nation.

yes, unity means we're all suppose to strive for dubya's view of this nation together. healing tone means, "it's okay... everyone but the corporations and their close pals are getting fucked over, so we can all heal in apathy and misery together."

i will not be healed.

i will not unify with this barbarously exploitive view of this country.

i will be a sore spot. i will hold the atrocities in the faces of those who will be responsible for them. they've had their chances, and they've failed. yet through whatever subversive means, these people are in public office anyway.

let the shrub know what you think of his version of unity and healing, every day of his reign.